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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory, including Zvezda (a TV channel owned by Putin's Ministry of Defence), according to local media.

How the fuck do you just casually say someone is suing a chocolate factory in stride without providing any further explanation. Wtf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Which will live longer? Google or Russia?

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's in rubles so $52.11

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now it’s $43.17 - inflation is no laughing matter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just need to wait long enough to make it three fiddy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Tree fiddy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

more like rubbles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke, but you've missed the dollar symbol. That's the fine in USD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here ya go, googles. I got your back.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

A billion of those and you're still not even close to paying off that fine

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Weimar Republic has entered the chat.

Who knows how long that man had to work to earn that much paper? Twelve minutes? Thirteeeeen minutes?

Anyway, until inflation hits at least 4,130,772,540,007,917,373,294% Americans should really stop griping about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because of the period of hyperinflation, one day I had a boss unwittingly hand me $500. She bent down and said, "Ooh! Someone dropped a quarter! Wait this ain't a quarter, what the heck is this?" She then handed me a 1934 500 Deutchmark coin. I told her what it was, and asked her if she wanted it. She said she wouldn't know what to do with it, so after I sold it, I gave her $75 as a 15% finders fee.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's actually really cool.

The only foreign coin I have came from a roll of quarters I got in 2015. Back when I visited the laundromat weekly. I stuck my quarters in the machine, but this one kept getting spit out so I checked it. I didn't recognize the characters on it, but I had an Iranian coworker who might so I took it to work and asked if she knew what it was. She immediately goes, "Oh! This is a dirham! It's from the UAE."

Turns out it was worth 23¢ at the time lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

One thing I forgot to mention, the thing that gave it away was it was cast out of aluminum, so it was really light. Probably worth a lot more these days, since this was about 16 years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly looks like Rock Band Bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD, as per usual: https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The Earth's crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed]

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Well, have you seen said atoms?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Even if Google wanted to pay the fine. It'd be all their money, their bills would lapse and YouTube would go down effectively removing their channels anyway...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

Missed opportunity to fine Google $1 googol.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

This is why people don't take Russia seriously.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha! What a funny Onion headline!

checks the community name

laughs 1000x harder

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most sensible Russian legal decision:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Google should send them a $50 Play store card instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

A redeemed one

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't that... More money than the GDP of the world?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think that $20 decillion not only blows the GDP of the planet out of the water, it is also several orders of magnitude larger than the entire valuation of the entirety of the planet including the core.

Edit: looked it up, and the GDP of 2023 was just over $100 trillion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I value trees more than you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So google got fined 2x10 ^ 34?

The earth is made up of 1.33x10 ^ 50 atoms. An A4 sheet of paper is made up of 8.37x10 ^ 23. Let's assume roughly a dollar bill is 1/8th of an A4 sheet, so 1x10 ^ 23.

The atoms in the dollar bill (10 ^ 23) multipled by the fine total (2x10 ^ 34) is 2x10 ^ 57.

This means if every atom on the entire earth was rearranged into dollar bills you wouldn't have enough money. You would need to do that to a million earths to pay that fine.

Disclaimer: I half assed this math on my lunch break and I trusted Google AI results for the atom counts

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It should have been $Googol instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They double the fine each week so it will reach a googol eventually.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

That means we reach a googol in ~218 weeks ≈ 4.2 years.

I thought it would take longer.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that 20 Google dollars, by chance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Twenty decillion

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

is there a "non-credible economics" community?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

... I mean, yeah. lmao

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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Case in point: the most recent post there as of right now is a video by an Ancap accusing someone else of economic illiteracy 😂

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Would paying a fine to Russia be a sanctions violation?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Twenty putillion dollars

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Honestly based, EU should do the same

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

How about we just quantify, prorate and scale the damage they've done in Ukraine and give them an adequate amount of rubbles instead of rubles?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Mwahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If Google pays it they could crash the global economy.

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